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BRITISH POST OFFICE SHANGHAI: Memorandum as to Title to, Site and Property in Buildings.

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Title Deed No.574, for Lot 581, in the original British Settlement at Shanghai was issued on 16th October, 1862, on the application of The Lords Commissioners of the Admiral ty, and stands in the Land Register in H.B.M. Consulate-General in the name of the "British Jail".

On the 18th March, 1875 The Commissioners of Works

& Public Buildings, by Mr. R. H. Bovce Assistant Surveyor of Works, Shanghai, leased part of the Lot to the Government of Hongkong, by Sir Arthur Kennedy, the then Governor, for 999 veers from the 1st April 1874 at a nominal rent of one Mexican Dollar cent per anmm.

It was provided: "That the tenant shall not assign "or underlet the said premises or any part thereof to any "person or persons whomsoever or use or occupy the said "premises or any part thereof or suffer the same to be used "or occupied otherwise than for the purpose of a British "Post Office without the consent of the said Landlord or his 'successore".

The lease was determinable upon breach of covenant, and it was provided that the Lessees rights including the "claim of the said Tenant his successors or assigns in or to "any buildings or structure of whatsoever description that "may be upon the said ground shall thereupon cease and "determine."

On the 6th of December 1900 The Commissioners of

Works, London, leased to the Government of Hongkong part of

the "Old Gail Lot* (next to that leased in 1875) for a term

of 999 years as from the let of July 1905 at a rent of Taels

1,200 per anmam.

On the land leased in 1875 the British Post Offide

at Shanghai was erected at a cost, then, equivalent to £29] 7,